{"id":3692,"date":"2015-04-25T00:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2015-04-25T00:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T05:08:54","slug":"diy-kitchen-transformation-prep-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2015\/04\/diy-kitchen-transformation-prep-work\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Kitchen Transformation: The Importance of Thorough Prep Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The prep work we did last night wasn’t good enough…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a pretty substantial setback today on our journey to (like) new cabinets.<\/p>\n

Dave and I had read plenty of DIY tips<\/a> suggesting that if one’s stained and sealed cabinets are old enough, a simple chemical treatment with a “sander deglosser” is all we would need before applying the primer, then paint.<\/p>\n

Boy were we wrong!<\/p>\n

Last night we had applied two coats of Kilz primer to the island and cabinet doors, and this evening, as Dave\u00a0took a sanding block to some of the drips from last night’s work, large pieces of the primer came right off!<\/p>\n

It turned out the deglosser<\/a> didn’t do jack.<\/p>\n

So tonight we had to break out the big guns: trisodium phosphate (TSP)<\/a> and an\u00a0orbiter sander<\/a>\u00a0to get all of the original primer off. It isn’t pretty. We will also be switching the primer to a “bonding primer<\/a>“. We probably should have chosen the bonding primer all along…<\/p>\n

So tomorrow we try all this again…we need to get the prep work right the first time, so this paint doesn’t chip and peel on us in a matter of months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a pretty substantial setback today on our journey to (like) new cabinets. Dave and I had read plenty of DIY tips suggesting that if one’s stained and sealed cabinets are old enough, a simple chemical treatment with a “sander deglosser” is all we would need before applying the primer, then paint. Boy were … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[306,582,450,581],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diy","tag-diy-kitchen","tag-home-improvement","tag-kitchen-transformation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t